An elderly lady suffering from Paget's disease presented with severe back pain after sustaining a fall. The rise in inflammatory markers and poor response to analgesics led to the diagnosis of septic discitis [corrected] that was confirmed by MRI. A high index of suspicion for septic discitis [corrected] is necessary in elderly patients presenting with back pain and an associated rise in inflam...

I met Horst at the University of Münster, Germany, in July 1972. While I was at the university, one of my goals was to find a husband. I wanted my husband to be Catholic, so I decided to join a bible study group, where I thought I would find many suitable “candidates.” Unfortunately though, I was wrong. There were only two Catholics. One of them was definitely not an option, and then there was ...

Coccinellid communities across North America have experienced significant changes in recent decades, with declines in several native species reported. One potential mechanism for these declines is interference competition via intraguild predation; specifically, increased predation of native coccinellid eggs and larvae following the introduction of exotic coccinellids. Our previous studies have ...

We may not be able to make you love reading, but henry jamess the portrait of a lady will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. In this case, more books you ...

Drugs are an important cause of Stevens–Johnson syndrome(SJS) in about 95% of reports. 100 drugs have been reported as causes of SJS or toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN). There are very few reports of SJS due to use of diclofenac. In this report we present a 65 year old lady who developed SJS after usage of diclofenac suppository.

Non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection (NMI) occurs in elderly women with no pre-existing lung disease, and this has been termed the Lady Windermere syndrome. NMIs are increasing in prevalence and an increasing number of pulmonary mycobacterial infections is due to non-tuberculous mycobacteria. The diagnosis is often difficult because the organism is not readily isolated or cultured, and the c...

BACKGROUND The occurrence of an extra-uterine leiomyoma, arising from the intra-peritoneal portion of the round ligament in a lady with Müllerian agenesis diagnosed at the age of forty is extremely rare. We report a case of this rare combination in a Middle Eastern woman. CASE A 40 years old lady, primarily amenorrheic, presented to our clinic for an infertility consultation. The work- up sho...

The Lady Maisry ballads afford us a framework within which to segment a storyline into its major components. Segments and as a consequence nodal points are discussed for nine different variants of the Lady Maisry story of a (young) woman being burnt to death by her family, on account of her becoming pregnant by a foreign personage. We motivate the importance of nodal points in textual and liter...

Specific dermatoses of pregnancy refer to a group of skin diseases that are encountered predominantly during or immediately following pregnancy. This is a case report of pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy developing in a 29-year-old lady primigravida lady is associated with overt diabetes with hypothyroidism, pre-eclampsia and anemia. The diagnosis of PUPPP is a clinical one, ...